For anyone with even a passing interest in the night sky, there has probably never been a better time to be alive. Almost weekly, we are learning more and more about the worlds which surround us, a fact underscored last week when radar imaged passing Near Earth Asteroid 1998 QE2 complete with its own tiny “moon.” One of […]
The European Southern Observatory in Chile is in some ways the Earth bound counterpart to the Hubble Space Telescope, providing both groundbreaking research as well as simply stunning images of deep space which often defy imagination, such as the image shown above, taken with the Very Large Telescope, which shows a planetary nebula surrounding a dying star 3300 light […]
The image is strangely compelling; a lone planet, drifting endlessly through the dead, cold void of space. Science fiction writers love them, one such world, Danaan, was the subject of the The Eternity Artifact, by L.E. Modesitt Jr. In that novel, the planet’s extreme velocity and a trajectory carrying it straight out of the galaxy suggested alien engineering, providing the rationale for a last moment excursion before it passed into […]
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